Posts Tagged ‘Old Days’

Lush Life

Posted: 10th November 2009 by ~m in Dreams, Family, God, Irish, Jazz music, Life, Music, Old Days, Personal, Sad, blues, chances, dark, deaths, prayer, twins
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Special dedication tonight as I recall a smoky dive from the 50’s called the ‘Waltz Club’  . . .
Long story and definitely not one for this blog.
I knew of one of the patron saints of the place, from what I’ve heard.
Sweet dreams, lady, sweet and smoky dreams
Maybe I’ll see you in them . . .
[11.9.09]
*I [...]

Oxblood

Posted: 15th October 2009 by ~m in Family, Imagine, Life, Love, Memoir, Old Days, Personal, Sad, Time, Truth, alzheimer's disease, shoes, weather
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I hate wearing new shoes and I’m willing to bet that 99.999% of the male population does too.
They never feel right and by the end of the day you’re walking like Donald Duck after
sniffing glue and eating one too many Skittles.
Taste the rainbow of discomfort.
The only footwear that feels right to me the first time [...]

Bike

Posted: 21st April 2009 by ~m in Friends, Kids, Life, Love, Memoir, Old Days, Personal, Truth, guystuff, writing
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To look at it, you would think it was just another normal boy’s bicycle but I knew better.
It was an off-brand that my father bought at an old store in town and I so loved it.
Can’t remember the name for the life of me but it was mostly fireball red and the fenders
had a bit [...]

49

Posted: 9th January 2008 by ~m in Birthdays, Family, Life, Love, Old Days, Personal, deaths, twins
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It’s always around my birthday that I get somewhat nostalgic and wax philosophic about my younger years. I’m not old by any stretch of the imagination but at a soon-to-be 49, I’m no longer a little boy either.
I have to smile thinking about several lines from an old James Taylor song called,
“I was a fool [...]